Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Preface xiii
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. Pictures xix
6. Introduction 3
7. A Passionate Pedigree 10
8. Growing Up Privileged and Presbyterian, 1913–1935 32
9. Defining a Precocious Piety, 1922–1938 47
10. Setting Course Professionally and Maritally, 1938–1941 66
11. Young Pastor and Part-time Academic, 1941–1951 81
12. A Confessional Canadian Presbyterian, 1941–1951 92
13. Academic and Administrator, 1951–1962 114
14. Staying the Course, 1952–1958 126
15. Persevering Presbyterian, 1952–1965 142
16. McGill’s Unsettling Putsch, 1958–1965 164
17. Heady Years at Guelph, 1965–1970 180
18. Academic Autumn, 1970–1979 202
19. Embattled Mainline Evangelical, 1966–1981 217
20. Interpreting Calvin among Calvinists, 1953–1987 239
21. A Painful Parting, 1977–1983 257
22. Church Union Redivivus, 1980–1984 280
23. Lengthening Shadows, 1989–1996 295
24. Epilogue 299
25. Bibliography of the Writings of W. Stanford Reid 303
26. Notes 325
27. Bibliography 383
28. Index 393